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Database worker bills $200 for labor because the accounting department wants to save $0.20 cents on a $5 replacement ethernet cable: ‘The purchasing clerk was proud’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘He was trying to intimidate me into doing it’: Arrogant coworker tries to order employee to work for free on an external ‘side project’ because he doesn't have the budget for an expert opinion, employee adamantly refuses

Lana DeGaetano

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'They've already made at least $10K off my free labor': Developer gets tricked into building a full client website for interview test, only to get ghosted and find it live a week later

Isabella Penn

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Boss invents fake conversations to demand employee return to the office full-time, leaving the employee weighing HR complaints against quitting: ‘This isn’t the first time my boss changed his mind, and then blamed me for misunderstanding’

Etai Eshet

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'[Next time] call a professional': Bellboy floods a hotel room and causes $ 1000's in water damage after a bad manager tries to force him to fix the hotel's plumbing

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Pregnant employee goes into labor at the office but her boss forces her to stay 2 more hours to attend an ‘important’ work meeting: ‘He implied that I was using my pregnancy as an excuse to get out of work’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'That's not my job': Supervisor demands that a temp waiter unload heavy drink pallets from a truck, they maliciously comply by offloading each bottle one by one

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Cheapskate manager destroys $4,000 worth of product after ignoring the advice of a wise warehouse guy: ‘You told me to use the old pallets... [so] I did'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Clever labor worker chastises modern tradesmen who reject safety protocol to seem cool: 'I don't care what your grandpappy used to do... I'm trying to not destroy my lungs'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Movers try to scam a guy with a hidden $400 fee, then get caught in a tight spot of petty revenge: 'They had him over a barrel'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Deal with it': Foreman puts his contractor's health on the line after denying him proper safety equipment on a hazmat-worthy job site

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'His truck was literally bent': Boorish customer gets led down a rocky road after expecting free labor from his mechanic

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'He never asked me to do dishes again': Farmworker floods his boss's kitchen with soap bubbles to get out of house chores that are not in his job description

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I get injured and [there's] no loyalty': Employee on disability leave gets fired after missing 3 weeks of work; the Internet calls out a broken system of hypocritical bosses

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Don't take reviews as payment': Neighbor offers next-to-nothing in exchange for an unpaid laborer to reroof his entire home, making Nextdoor users question everything

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I did this for the last 2 years and no one said a word': Company Fires a Warehouse Employee Without Warning for Taking Too Many Smoke Breaks, Claiming He Was a "Time Thief" and Owed Them $290 in Labor Losses

Jesse Kessenheimer

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